Cormac Ó hEadhra

Yeah, there's sort of gamesmanship.

There's elements of this, which is you're just like, just get on with it.

Just get on with it.

So that's sort of my feeling.

I have that sort of irritation.

There's working on the ref.

There's all these types of things.

I wonder, does it change?

If they could increase his pay, and then it's like, well, look, I've actually been working on a few new routines.

This one's going to take a long time, though, to implement.

So I don't like it.

But this is all an issue for another day.

Because I think what Arteta has done, and nobody can deny this.

It's not just Arteta, but I think he is kind of the main...

force here is is he has more accurately than his competitors his rivals uh read the way that the game was going and he has built a team which is which is equipped to play that game and it and can handle what's thrown at them by the premier league and if you look at for example the much lauded team at liverpool you know the edwards hughes these guys and slot um

They went the other direction at the start of the season.

So Arteta and his team, Andrea Berta and so on, made a decision in the summer to, last summer, to...

to make sure that they had depth to have to make sure that they had strength resilience they built so much resilience so much um redundancy let's say into the team that um the brownford captain from the previous season has played something like 10 60 minutes or some crazy amount of norguard they basically it's like well sorry christian things never got so bad that we actually had to use you but thanks for being there you played your part too uh

So they made the decision to do this, buying players in positions where you would have thought, well, actually, they're already strong, and buying players who were physical and able to stand up to the Premier League, whereas Liverpool decided to go for, let's bring in top players.

sort of elite quality, you know, in a couple of positions where we think we need to really, and that's obviously kind of totally blown up in their face.